Photographer's Note

Good Morning Everyone,

This may appear as black and white but it was, in fact, colour! Please click on On a Snowy Morning! to enjoy the photograph much bigger and clearer.

I dedicate this photograph to Luciano, who told me how much he was lamenting the lack of snow where he lives and urged me to go out in the snow with my camera! Well, I didn't manage it on Sunday, it really was too cold and the conditions were not suitable for photography but I succumbed yesterday!.

Well, this doesn't look like a lot of snow but it kept coming in heavy flurries and then melting away. We had constant snowy conditions but never a deep covering.

I walked towards the moors and the lonely farmhouses. This small farm, tucked away in a dip in the landscape, had obviously had visitors: on foot and in in a vehicle.

I found the tracks a great asset to my photograph and they began a narrative, wondering who had been up on this cold morning. The narrative continued as I encountered other tracks but that's for later!

Hello Bev,
A well composed image featuring this lovely snowy landscape. I applaud your bravery in tackling the conditions to get the photo. The footprints and tire tracks create depth and perspective and are nicely complemented by the rustic railings. I like the black and white effect, which is very evocative of a cold wintry day.
Some snow flurries here today, but it hasn't amounted to much for which I am truly grateful.

Hi Bev. I can see that the photo-on-demand service works great on this site ... ahahaha .. really beautiful wide perspective with few tracks on the country road that leads to the farm in background. Perfect display for exceptional white and great details. Thanks for the dedication and for having satisfied my request, today there is a wonderful sun and a very clean sky in my village, I will see the snow next year ... maybe. Have a nice day! Luciano.

Hello Bev
I will join Luciano with his lamentation about a lack of snow. The English snow showers change into rain showers when they pass the North Sea to the Netherlands.
I love the dark traces on the snowed country road. I lovely moody scene.
Well done. Have a nice day. Groet Rob

Hello Bev,
Amusing and beautiful simplicity created by a few car tracks and footprints. These prints make me imagine a number of people and cars passing by without seeing them. What a lively photo this is! The wooden fences frame the view perfectly and it was a good decision to take the photo where the road makes a curve. A bending road is usually more interesting than a straight.
Kind regards,
Gert

Hello Beverley,
That is really winter freeze, cold and grey. (B&W on a color version photo ?).
Good reason for the wooden railings/fence, otherwise an un-experience driver would loose the road.
light managed in fine manner.
Good afternoon,
Ike

Hello Beverley, there is something very attractive about the Pennines in snowy conditions.
I like your point of view where the road fills three quarters of the frame. The various footprints add further interest.
And yes, we can just see the tiniest hint of colour.
I am glad that you braved the weather to bring us this shot.
Regards Jean.

Sadly, we've had no snow again at all this year down on the South Coast. I'm quite envious of this simple but graphic shot, that looks almost monochrome in its tones. The footprints and tyre-tracks make an interesting pattern.

Hello Bev, very good view of this interesting and beautiful composition, very well captured in this good and beautiful picture. An interesting image, with good sharpness, depth, light, color and quality. Very good and beautiful work perfectly done, my congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this interesting work.

Good night and happy week.
All the best from the south of Spain.
Angel.

Hello Beverley,
We had a tiny bit of snow last Monday, so I guess England got almost everything and there was hardly any left in the clouds by the time they had reached this side of the North Sea. Great photo of the snowy road with the tyre tracks and the footsteps.
Lars

The curves of the vehicules traces lead the eye on the farm at the bottom, also guided by the wooden fences. Then we also see some human presence due to the wandering footsteps going to the farm. They are more recent than the car passage, we can see the bare road.
This should be a good picture to report what happened in this village.
Cheers
CLODO

Hello Bev, I also a bit lament that we have no snow in Warsaw this winter. On the other hand, it is better, I must remove the snow from the 40 m of pavement and it is hard work. From the view of the traces I suppose that the snow was rather wet and unpleasant. we see the traces of a bird and also an animal, maybe dog. Nice to see winter on the photo.